Sure and certain death
By: Barbara Nadel
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Clipper large print; Francis Hancock mysteries
Publisher: W F Howes
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781407449432
Subjects: Francis Hancock (Fictitious character); Fiction; Undertakers and undertaking; World War, 1914-1918; Veterans; World War, 1939-1945; Serial murder investigation; Social aspects
Description: "East London, 1940: Francis Hancock finds the brutally eviscerated body of a woman in a derelict house in Plaistow. Francis' sister, Nancy, knew the victim. Then, shockingly, two more murders follow; again, the victims are female and also eviscerated. Rumours start to spread through the East End about a modern day Jack the Ripper. When a fourth woman is murdered, Nancy finally admits that she knew all of the victims. They were all White Feather Girls during the First World War; women who spent their time giving any man out of uniform a white feather as a sign of cowardice. Francis is appalled, but also terrified that now his sister might be murdered too. He sets out to find the killer and discovers a trail of murderous resentment that goes back decades"-- Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: London: Headline.